(also related to thrust #2 described below: after WWII, the only way to make sense of a crazy world was to write fragments, destabilized. how to deal with spiritual worldview after the holocaust. i see marguerite duras as an example of this response to the world. not as a way to change it, as protest, but to accurately describe.)

(padcha, you say that denying meaning is still a reading of a text--that it has no meaning is a meaning. but what about this: no meaning is only One Reading. but accepting that there is meaning means there are infinite interpretations. allowing for meaning means doing more "work" as a reader. saying there is no meaning allows you not to create more than one interpretation. it allows you to dismiss, in a way. it allows you to say that scott's work, for example, means the same thing as jackson maclowe's, etc.)